Job Description
Job Description: Level 3 Nursery Practitioner
Salary: £27,352.00 per annum
Hours: 40 hours per week
Ellingham Day Nursery are seeking a skilled and passionate Room Leader to join their dedicated team.
About us:
Ellingham House Day Nursery is set idyllically in a Georgian country house surrounded by 2.5 acres of lawns and woodland. In this safe space, our children have the opportunity to explore, stretch, and run as well as practice their climbing and balancing skills in the ever popular ‘bear cave’. The paddock is home to our friendly Valais Black Nose sheep- Baarbara and Soozie. The children help the team care for them and learn how to stay safe around animals. The nursery has a real ‘home from home’ feel, with welcoming rooms specifically suited to babies, toddlers and preschoolers.
The nursery is open 8:00am-6:00pm and we would require you to work a minimum of 40 hours per week within those hours. Please note the nursery is not a term time only nursery.
If you are dedicated to supporting children and their families to thrive, creating exciting and engaging play and learning opportunities and being a part of a supportive team then apply today to come and join us.
Please visit our website for further information https://ellinghamhouse.co.uk/
Nursery Reviews:
"The nursery is home from home and we couldn't have asked for a more professional, robust, and family environment to help prepare our son for his educational
journey"
"We love Ellingham's premises with lots of activities to do (weather dependent) and their staff"
"The nursery is home from home and we couldn't have asked for a more professional, robust, and family environment to help prepare our son for his educational
journey"
Early Years Practitioner duties and responsibilities*:
- Ensure that each child’s individual needs are met and a high standard of professional care and education is delivered in a caring, safe and secure environment in which all children can play, learn and develop
- Observe, assess and plan an interesting, stimulating and challenging range of early years activities which supports each child’s individual learning and development needs and abilities
- Engage as a professional member of the team, exhibiting a flexible attitude and willingness to develop new skills
- Ensure that company policies and procedures are read, applied, reviewed regularly and adhered to by all
- Follow risk assessments diligently and report all health and safety matters to management
- Enhance the all-around daily needs of children, including their physical, intellectual, social and emotional development
*Duties and responsibilities in this job description are not exhaustive or restrictive, changes and other duties relevant to this post may be added.
Early Years Practitioner requirements and skills:
- Full and relevant Level 3 childcare qualification - essential
- Fluent in written and spoken English - essential
- Over 1 year’s experience of working in Early Years - desirable
- Knowledge of the Statutory framework for the EYFS and regulatory requirements - desirable
Ellingham House Day Nursery is part of the Family First Group where we take great care to treat everyone as a person, with equal rights and responsibilities to any other individual, whether they are an adult or a child. We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice for all children and families according to their individual needs. Discrimination on the grounds of gender, age, race, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, ethnic or national origin, or political belief has no place within the Family First Group.
We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to enhanced checks as part of our Safeguarding Duty.
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BenefitsFamily First benefits include annual leave starting at 24 days on top of a paid birthday day off and bank holidays. On top of this we have discounted nursery fees for all our teams, friends and family, access to a discount/perks platform with exceptional learning & development opportunities tailored to you
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Why Join Us?
Established in 2019, we are UK’s fastest growing childcare provider and it’s our ambition to grow further by acquiring well run local nurseries that provide outstanding quality childcare and we strive to provide an enjoyable working environment for all our team. Whether you are working in one of our nurseries, or as part of our support team, you’ll feel part of the family. It’s always been like this, it’s in our DNA.
If you love childcare as much as we do, you’ll fit right in. We know that choosing your next career move is a big step, but fear not – our people are our most important asset and we make a big deal when it comes to taking care of you!
What Makes us Different?
From humble beginnings with a very small team, Family First began its journey with just 4 nurseries within London and has grown to 100 nurseries across the UK. Although we have grown, we have stayed true to our values, ensuring the highest possible standard of childcare, with a passion for developing our teams.
Our people are passionate about creating a special environment for all of the children within our care to flourish. Whilst there’s lots of hard work involved, to ensure that all our children are provided with the best possible standard of care, it’s the fact that we all love working with children, believe in what we do and have a lot of fun doing it that really helps us pull together, to create the highest quality of childcare that we’ve become famous for.
It’s the reason that parents choose to trust us with their children; because when you enjoy caring for children and seeing them develop into wonderful young people as much as we do, the feeling to have enriched someone’s early years journey is truly overwhelming.